Neither--just the precondition for even thinking meaningfully abour "strategy."
>...Trots have been saying it for decades...
No, they've been saying it for generations, since even before the birth of Trotsky ("Trots" here = revolutionary marxists and "Dems" = capitalist-dominated parties)
>, as they splinter further into deeper irrelevance, and now the
>Greens have taken it up, as they too splinter further into deeper
>irrelevance. It's a fine impulse if there are steps 2, 3, 4... in
>mind, but it's looking more and more like no one's gotten beyond
>step 1 (unless you call splitting steps 2, 3, 4...)
Splitting is the inevitable consequence of the illusion that one can take "steps 2, 3, 4..." when step *one* remains untaken by the working classes and their totally inadequate leadership (including the whole range from ordinary bureaucrats to self-styled socialists).
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos